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Black Snake Moan** 8a

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A smart line. Start on the ledges just left of the gearing-up block. 20m. Climb the fingery brown wall to the break and finish up the black streak above. © ROCKFAX
The black streak to the left of Brean topping, starting as for that route.
Dave Pickford 2010

Ticklists: The road to 8a, West Country Climbs, West Country projects.

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This climb is in 25 logbooks, and on 6 wishlists.

Great route, did it today in a day, but I've done the bottom half a bunch of times, still, almost fell off the bottom part on my sent. I use different beta than everyone elses, which made it feel more like 7c+ than 8a.
Ramon Marin - Lead rpt - 21/Apr/13 with viki harvey

Hidden - Lead RP - 20/Apr/13

First redpoint, quite cool route actually.
Ellis Butler-Barker - Lead RP - 19/Apr/13 with JackMac

Peter Dickinson - Lead RP - 19/Apr/13 with Julie Carroll

pinged off the top crimp a few times loosing body tension
brices - Lead dog - 13/Mar/13 with Ross Atkinson, Tomar

Linked crux today no skin for send though
brices - Lead dog - 03/Mar/13 with Tomar

guy xavier percival - Lead RP - 28/Feb/13 with gordon

So cold that fingers were completely numb before the break. Was fine in two sections though - will be back.
simonr - Lead dog - 23/Feb/13 with Eleri, Sam Clark

Hidden - Lead dog - 09/Feb/13

cross - 2013

all moves done fell off at end of crux 2nd go. next time
brices - Lead dog - 08/Dec/12 with Tomar

Hidden - Lead RP - Nov/12

1st 8a, harder than other 7c+'s I've done but not by much
Tris.w - Lead RP - 30/Oct/12 with Laurent

2nd go
Cassidy - Lead RP - 14/Jul/12 with Rich Emerson

dan gibson - Lead RP - 19/Jun/12 with julie carroll

1st redpoint 2day, felt ok with cooler conditions, 7c+
peaches69 - Lead RP - 31/May/12 with connor

2nd session, done in 2 overlapping sections. bottom to crux, break to top
peaches69 - TR dog - 27/May/12 with connor

Hidden - TR dnf - 15/Apr/12

Pretty cool but short-lived. Sequence didn't seem obvious.
Jon_Warner - Lead dog - 15/Apr/12 with Jenni

pezzerrr - Lead RP - 21/Mar/12

more 7c+ than 8a
Gavinsymonds - 01/Mar/12

Took a while. Avoided the massive ledge for hands-possibly 8a this way: need to do a few more to be sure! Def the hardest route I've done @ Brean to date.
quiffhanger - Lead RP - 15/Jan/12

A tad soft,
westyb3 - Lead RP - 04/Dec/11 with Heather Ogston

Climbed second go. Very soft for 8a.
Cailean Harker - Lead RP - 28/Nov/11

gazhbo - Lead - Nov/09

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Hidden, brices, Hidden, Vertigo1, fezzi, Hidden

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Style of ascent

Lead21 of 25 (84.0%)
Toproped2 of 25 (8.0%)
Unknown2 of 25 (8.0%)

'Climbed'3 of 25 (12.0%)
clean rpt1 of 25 (4.0%)
clean RP13 of 25 (52.0%)
dogged7 of 25 (28.0%)
dnf1 of 25 (4.0%)